Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Quiz: Comp Lit Lecture Rabelais Dec 1
18 Apr 2016
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The renaissance: very staggered beginnings based on location. Italy: roughly 1450 1525/1550 // france: roughly 1500 1600 // england: 1600 (starts: an educational revolt: return to classical latin and greek. Written in classical latin as opposed to spoken latin // where latin stops being a spoken language. Teaching methods // interest in new ways of teaching. What starts as an educational revolt ends up being a meditation on humanity // concerned with ethics and what man means. Freeing from the claws of the catholic church. Huge industry of translation the period where the printing press is invented (mid-15th century) Democratization of books // books become cheaper (with the industrialization of the printing press) a lot more copies, a lot more people are reading, non- aristocrats are reading, women are reading. Questions of the nature of man: man can actually improve themselves through the use of reason, raising the level of mankind.
